‘Mounjaro is making my hair fall out – but it’s worth it to lose weight’
A mother, who is exposed to hair loss while using weight loss medication, says she will not stop her jabs after losing more than two stones in four months.
Rhiannon Anne Griffiths-Bowen was losing a handful of hair in the shower after receiving Mounjaro, which he ordered with a monthly prescription from an online pharmacy.
After dried, he brushed his hair, so much hair falls that he would have to discharge the hair brush at least three times.
He asked his doctor and other Mounjaro users who advised him to get vitamin B7 supplements for the skin called Biyotin and the skin called Biyotine. And although it has reduced hair loss, side effects remain.
Inside Patient bookletMounjaro manufacturer Eli Lilly says that hair loss is a common side effect that affects one of the 10 people, and that social media groups have many users who complain without losing their hair.
However, the problem did not prevent the 26 -year -old child from increasing the dosage of weight loss.
Before a price increase next month, Swansea, a mother of South Wales, spent £ 450 in a three -month supply of a 10 mg dosage per week and increased from a 7.5mg weekly dose.
“IT [hair loss] One of the cons of the pen, but the benefits predominate. ” Independent. “’Okay, it’s okay, I’m getting something to reduce it now’, now I know it’s coming from injections.
“It doesn’t significantly affect my life. I’m lucky, I don’t thin my hair and I don’t notice it in the mirror. Right now it doesn’t affect me to the point that ‘right, now I have to stop’.
When Ms. Griffiths-Bowen began to buy Mounjaro, it weighs 18th, after her weight increased due to an injury and birth complications in her foot.
Since it started injections at the end of April, he saw his weight fell to 15th LB. Body mass index (BMI) fell from 41 to 35 in the obese category in the serious obese category.
Jabs focused on making healthy foods and changing carbonated drinks for a sugar -free diluted pumpkin, while he stopped his wishes for Junk Junk.
In the UK, the estimated weight loss jabs is one of 1.5 million people and most of them pay specifically for them.
Griffiths-Bowen, “My medicines, what I walk or how often I go to the gym is not important, it was gaining weight,” he said. “You can only fight against something you just buy as a religion, and then I had a rough improvement from pregnancy.
“Mounjaro is very useful for me. For me, my paintings were crazy and helped my mental health.”
Hair loss is not the only problem he encounters after taking the weight loss medication.
Only weeks after he started to take their jabs, he became ill with the stomach. However, with fruit and hazelnuts and breakfast cereals, fiber eating increases helped improve health.
Mrs. Griffiths-Bowen said that more clinical support is needed for people who buy weight loss medications.
Although side effects were given on brochures when buying Jabs, some pharmacies could be better to listen to customers’ feedback and then follow the advice.
He said: “Everything that producers or pharmacies know may be linked to the side effects with the drugs, then they should provide better support for how people can cope after receiving advice and then follow them later.”
He also believed that the drug should be prescribed more commonly through NHS, unlike people who applied to buy from online pharmacies.
In June, Mounjaro was presented through GP operations for those who have more than 35 BMI and weight -related health status. Those who cannot recipe can buy specially through pharmacies, but some reported deficiency before the price increase.
Eli Lilly approached Independent For comment.
